# Most hilarious moment of the Primary **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 15, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822 "2012-04-15T04:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/41 "2012-04-23T21:23:54Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert NOT collaborating on Stephens SuperPAC that Jon was running. Shouldn’t **intentionally** hilarious moments be disqualifed from the contest? ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/42 "2012-04-24T05:02:27Z")
Romney’s speech to an empty stadium was amusing. [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1085759/-GOP-Madness-2012-Round-1-match-3](http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/23/1085759/-GOP-Madness-2012-Round-1-match-3) Dick Tuck pulled a similar [stunt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck) on Nixon back in 1950. But today’s Republicans succeed in pranking themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Enlightening\_Meditation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecc23a/32.png) [@Enlightening\_Meditation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enlightening_Meditation)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/43 "2012-04-24T06:51:11Z")
This may loosely count as GOP primary politics: Donald Trump, during the height of his birther phase, gets embarrassed by Obama’s jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. * * * Romney’s line from his speech at CPAC 2012 made me laugh: “I was a _severely_ conservative governor!!” …which was soon after Foster Friess’s joke: "A conservative, a moderate, and a liberal walk into a bar, and the bartender says ‘Hi Mitt’ ". * * * The whole Newt Gingrich interview on Meet The Press on May 15, 2011: Newt bashes ‘Obamacare’. David Gregory showed a video clip of Gingrich in 1993 on Meet The Press supporting individual mandates. There was also the “right wing social engineering” characterization of the Ryan budget and awkward questions about Newt’s prior infidelities…“You were 55 at the time”. * * * _Philadelphia Inquirer_ headline (soon before the Iowa Caucus): “SANTORUM SURGES FROM BEHIND” * * * [QUOTE=emcee2k] This thing is a bottomless goldmine. [/QUOTE] Yes! Nearly every major GOP candidate’s primary campaign was at least somewhat surreal. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAlecCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SmartAlecCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAlecCat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/44 "2012-04-24T11:23:32Z")
> [@Enlightening\_Meditation](#): > > _Philadelphia Inquirer_ headline (soon before the Iowa Caucus): > “SANTORUM SURGES FROM BEHIND” If you’re going there, what about [Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way](http://weldbham.com/secondfront/2012/02/24/poll-santorum-comes-from-behind-in-alabama-three-way/) ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/45 "2012-04-24T23:23:04Z")
In the primary “sideshow” category, Sara Palin was comedy gold. Her goofy historical malapropisms during her bus tour, and her frequent attempts to upstage other Republican candidates by showing up at their events, made me laugh almost every day. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/46 "2012-04-24T23:27:34Z")
The trees are the right height was pretty awesome, like a robot trying to tell a humor-joke. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/47 "2012-04-24T23:50:58Z")
> [@rogerbox](#): > > The trees are the right height was pretty awesome, like a robot trying to tell a humor-joke. 😕 What was this one? Can you maybe clarify a little by mentioning, oh, who said it and what it was exactly that they said? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/48 "2012-04-24T23:52:59Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 😕 > > What was this one? Can you maybe clarify a little by mentioning, oh, who said it and what it was exactly that they said? Romney said it, when describing what he loved about Michigan. IIRC, he said it a couple of different times and places. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/49 "2012-04-25T00:04:37Z")
[Here is a video of him saying it once](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEve4smDa0k) – the same speech where he got grief for mentioning his wife drives “a couple of Cadillacs”. I seem to remember him saying it again in a rather lame ramble about the geography of the state, but I haven’t found a cite yet. Maybe I’m conflating what he said in two unrelated lame ramblings. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/50 "2012-04-25T00:11:20Z")
[Ah, here’s the other time.](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/02/19/romney_says_he_loves_trees_lakes_and_cars_in_michigan.html) I think, but I’m not sure this was the first instance, and the link about was the second. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/51 "2012-04-25T01:11:04Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > In the primary “sideshow” category, Sara Palin was comedy gold. Her goofy historical malapropisms during her bus tour, and her frequent attempts to upstage other Republican candidates by showing up at their events, made me laugh almost every day. Oh yeah, her random bus tour, aka The Iquiterod Trail. I wonder if [**Sam Stone** is still convinced her didn’t quit.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=13947019#post13947019) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/52 "2012-04-25T01:35:43Z")
Thanks, **Boyo Jim**. I hadn’t seen or heard about that one. ---
**Author:** ![rogerbox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/76d3ee/32.png) [@rogerbox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rogerbox)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/53 "2012-04-25T02:07:07Z")
I > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > 😕 > > What was this one? Can you maybe clarify a little by mentioning, oh, who said it and what it was exactly that they said? Sorry, other posters already clarified for me, I didn’t realize I didn’t attribute it to the Romneybot. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/54 "2012-04-25T17:22:49Z")
[This Rick Santorum ad](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLkwg2rESyk) has to be up there. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822/55 "2012-04-26T04:25:24Z")
Fox News: [Newt’s three marriages mean that he would make a strong President](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=639252). I think that’s my personal favorite. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-hilarious-moment-of-the-primary/618822.md?page=2)